Terhi Koipijärvi

Director, Communications, Strategy & Responsibility, Metsähallitus 

Terhi Koipijärvi has an extensive international experience in leading corporate responsibility and sustainable forestry. She has worked more than 25 years in various managerial and leadership positions, being now a Director at Metsähallitus, state owned enterprise, which is responsible for the sustainable management of one third of Finland’s area. She has been one of the key sustainability experts in the transformation journey of the forest sector to responsible driven business culture. In her earlier career Koipijärvi has led the responsibility agenda in global forest industry companies like Metsä Group and Stora Enso. She holds a Master of Science degree from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Helsinki. Koipijärvi has written two books on strategic corporate responsibility together with CR expert Sari Kuvaja. Koipijärvi is e.g. Deputy Chairman of the Board of the CR Network FIBS, and member of the Board of forestry company Green Resources AS (East-Africa).